Special Reports, White Papers and Datasheets
Here you’ll find all the latest StreamBase reports, surveys, technical papers, case studies, data sheets, independent research, and other useful information about our company, software, and how we’re paving new ground in the Complex Event Processing (CEP) and Real-Time Analytics industries.
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Detailed Table of Reports, Papers and Datasheets
Special Reports
| Execution Consulting Services 2.0: Leveraging Technology to Build Relationships Produced by Aite Group and compliments of StreamBase Systems, this report analyzes key industry trends influencing the future of global trading and the growing prominence of execution consulting services. The study also examines some of the operational and technical challenges that market participants are facing in terms of scaling their execution consulting business based on a survey of 15 broker/dealers. |
| FX Trading and Technology Trends in 2012 Read what 240+ institutional FX traders are saying about FX algo trading, the impact of regulations, and the changing relationship between the buy and sell side. |
| FX Trading and Technology Trends in 2011 Read the results from a survey on the topic of FX Trading and Technology Trends in 2011. The survey results revealed that regulatory changes are having the greatest impact on FX trading from both a business and technology perspective with firms becoming more sophisticated in adopting algorithmic trading to gain control over their FX transactions. |
| FX Trading and Technology Trends in 2010 Read the results from a survey of over 80 active FX traders around the globe on the topic of FX Trading and Technology Trends in 2010. Written by Emily Fraser, Freelance Journalist, this report highlights a number of key findings, including a 10% increase in use of algos for FX trading from 2009, 35% of participants plan to change or add electronic FX venues, 56% of participants say robust and easy to integrate technology is the most important criteria for choosing an electronic FX platform, and 60% of participants are interested in learning more about CEP. The most popular areas of interest for CEP in FX are the identification of trading opportunities, order placement and price improvement. |
| Market Data Management Trends in 2010 Read the results from a survey of over 200 buy-side and sell-side firms around the globe on the topic of Market Data Management Trends in 2010. Written by Emily Fraser, Freelance Journalist, this report highlights a number of key findings, including: Cost reduction is top of mind but spending on new asset classes is on the rise, cost and innovation motivate switching, and firms are increasingly connecting to multiple market data sources |
| BlueCrest Capital Management for Real Time Market Data Management Read about how BlueCrest Capital Management, a leading European hedge fund based in London with over $15 billion in assets-under-management, is deploying StreamBase and data warehouse provider Vertica to expand the range of data sources and analytics that it makes available to its traders. |
Papers
| StreamBase LiveView Technical Paper Paper presented at the New England Database Summit – February 2012 |
| StreamBase High Availability This document illustrates how the StreamBase Event Processing Platform™ provides the ability for customers to deploy mission-critical StreamBase applications in a fault tolerant configuration. |
| Performance & Scalability Characterization This report measures the performance and scalability of an Equities Alternative Trading System (ATS) application using the StreamBase CEP engine and illustrates why leading global investment banks, hedge funds and other capital markets firms find StreamBase is the best performing CEP engine for the job. |
| StreamBase vs Native Threading This document demonstrates how StreamBase’s flexible and powerful approach to threading outperforms native threading in both C++ and Java on the kind of analytic workloads found in real-time capital markets applications. |
| A Dynamic Algorithm for Smart Order Routing Authored by Robert Almgren, NYU Professor of Mathematics and Chief Quantitative Officer of Quantitative Brokers, and Bill Harts, management consultant and previously Managing Director and Head of Equity Strategy for Banc of America Securities, this white paper explores the challenge of smart order routing, including the difficult task of liquidity detection, developing algorithms and applying these algorithms to real markets. |
| Can Real-Time Profit and Loss Tame the Turbulent Markets? Co-Authored by Bob Giffords, Independent Banking and Technology Analyst, and Mark Palmer, President and Chief Operating Officer, StreamBase Systems, this white paper discusses the motivations behind real-time profit and loss, including the market requirements involved, the elements of a CEP-based profit and loss architecture and the future of real-time profit and loss services. |
Datasheets: General
| Customer and Partner Testimonials See what customers and partners have to say about the value of the StreamBase CEP platform. |
Datasheets: Technology and Products
| StreamBase Complex Event Processing Overview Presents an overview of StreamBase Systems. |
| StreamBase LiveView Presents an overview of StreamBase LiveView™, a live business intelligence platform for streaming, real-time data. |
| StreamBase Connectivity and Visualization Options StreamBase offers the broadest connectivity to real-time and historical data sources in the industry. View the complete list. |
| StreamBase Component Exchange (SBX) Read about the StreamBase Component Exchange (SBX), the Complex Event Processing industry’s first developer community that allows StreamBase developers to download and distribute reusable StreamBase components. |
Datasheets: Use Cases
| StreamBase for Algorithmic Trading This datasheet discusses how StreamBase can be used to build a complete end-to-end algorithmic trading system, including the ability to back-test, implement successful trading strategies and make changes on the fly to react to real-time market conditions. StreamBase allows you to store results and keep a record of how your algorithms perform over time for benchmarking and even offers real-time alerting and trading visualization. |
| StreamBase for FX Provides an overview of how StreamBase can be used to address the challenges of the FX market, including the ability to aggregate, cleanse and normalize data from multiple FX liquidity providers, generate real-time prices, auto hedge, and more. |
| StreamBase for Market Data Management This datasheet highlights how StreamBase is used for real-time market data management, including enabling firms to optimize their market data investment, aggregate, enrich, route, and conflate their market data, and evaluate and assess their trading infrastructure’s health. |
| StreamBase for Proprietary Trading Read about how proprietary trading firms like Kosmos and PhaseCapital use StreamBase’s flexible development environment and high performance event server to rapidly build, backtest, deploy, and modify trading applications and handle the large and ever-growing volumes of data in today’s volatile markets. |
| StreamBase for Derivatives Read about how proprietary traders, brokers, hedge funds and other asset management firms can leverage StreamBase to test, build, deploy and modify low latency algorithmic trading strategies for multiple assets, including derivatives. |
| StreamBase and Vertica for Real-Time & Historical Market Data Management This datasheet discusses how the StreamBase Event Processing Platform™ and Vertica Column Store Database offer customers the ability to rapidly build algorithmic and quantitative strategies, easily back-test these algorithms against large amounts of historical data, and quickly deploy and evolve these trading strategies as market conditions change. |
| StreamBase for Federal Government, Defense, & Intelligence Provides an overview of how the Federal Government, Defense, & Intelligence communities can leverage StreamBase. |